Harmonic Resolution Systems equipment rack and platforms: SXR rack, S1 platforms, both in silver. With the silver Audio Research gear, looks pretty nice, I think.
View including the Basis turntable and 2nd HRS rack.
Evolution Acoustics speakers, Dartzeel electronics, Wave Kinetics turntable and Ampex ATR reel-to-reel
This room sounded good at this show [really prefer these larger speakers than the little monitors], and was in the top five or six rooms at the show, sound wise, to our ears.
Hit all the main points of music reproduction – not doing anything terribly wrong, nor stupendously right, either. A little on the neutral side, detailed, and fairly even across the frequency spectrum and, well, that kind of describes it.
Wave Kinetics turntable
Dartzeel NHB 18NS preamplifier
Dartzeel integrated amplifier
Evolution Acoustics speaker and Running Springs Audio power conditioner
Ampex ATR reel-to-reel
Ampex ATR reel-to-reel player recorder
Tape is really incomparable as a source.
The Magico Q7 speakers on the VAC Statement 450 amps using Synergistic Research cables.
This room was kind of hidden away. At the end of a hallway filled with booths, one found oneself in a large room with lots of luscious displays of Synergistic Research cables. Off in the corner was a door with a strange handle, that the nice Synergisitc people would open for you, through which you found the room pictured here.
I went there 3 times and each time they were demoing these Synergistic ‘black hole’ tweaks [you can see one on the floor in the next photo. It looks like a tall cake box]. So they would play 30 to 60 seconds of music – stop for 10 – 20 seconds, and then replay it. From what I could tell the VAC drove the speakers nicely, but I really didn’t get to hear much here.
Rear of the Magico Q7 speaker. Notice the Tweak. Looks like an old Walker or Bybee binding post tweak.
The Q7 was up on castors.
The VAC Statement 450 amp.
